"Not much has been written about the Ibogaine Effect as a serious factor in the Presidential Campaign, but toward the end of the Wisconsin primary race -- about a week before the vote -- word leaked out that some of Muskie's top advisers had called in a Brazilian doctor who was said to be treating the candidate with 'some kind of strange drug' that nobody in the press corps had ever heard of." (Quoted in a 1996 Thompson interview in Rolling Stone)

This story was picked up and repeated as though it were a factual charge by mainstream press. This may have contributed in small part to Muskie's failure to secure the Democratic nomination for president.